Salve



UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

JONAS RHORER SMITH, OF NEWV'ION, KANSAS.

SALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,210, dated June 26, 1888.

Application filed January 97,1898.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JONAS RHonER SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Harvey and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful In1-' provements in Salves or Medical Compounds; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled-in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a new and useful medical compound to be used externally as a salve for sores, eruptions, boils, carbuncles, fistulas of all kinds in man or beast, for ab scesses, fresh cuts, old sores, and the like, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My improved salve or medical compound is formulated as follows, to Wit: Phytolacca, (poke-ro0t,) one-fourth ounce; Arum tm'phyl- Zuni, (Indian turnip,) one-eighth ounce; saltpeter, (nitrate of p0tash,) live grains; cop- Serial No. 262,164. (No specimens.)

peras, (sulphate of iron,) five grains; blue vitriol, (sulphate of copper,) five grains; corrosive sublimate, (bichloride of, mercury,) three grains; Vaseline, fourounccs. ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed in the form of a salve and applied as such to the affected parts.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described medical compound to be used as a salve, consisting of lhytolacca, Arum triplzyllum, saltpeter, copperas, blue vitriol, corrosive sublimate, and Vaseline, in the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JONAS RHORER SMITH.

Witnesses:

D. A. HOLLIDAY, R. S. ROWLAND.

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